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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. REMLINGER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGN OR TO POTTER &BUFFINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,796, dated May 2,1893. Application filed March 29,1889. Serial No. 305,233. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. REMLINGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Jewelryand in the Manufacture Thereof, of which the following is aspecification.

My improvement relates to that class of j ewelry known as settings, andconstitutes a cluster or assemblage of settings, and is herein termed acluster setting.

My invention consists in part in a base member adapted to receive aplurality of stones or other ornaments arranged around a center, saidbase member containing a num ber of partial individual settings integralwith each other, and having integral setting points, each partialsetting to be completed bythe addition of another member to be cen-.

trally located with reference to the surrounding partial settings; andfurtherv in a centering or locating piece or yoke applied in the centralportion of the base member by which a supplementary setting is locatedrelatively to the surrounding setting and by which the arrangement ofparts or members is effected; and still further in the method ofconstructing and combining the several portions of the complete setting.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan and also avertical section on line 1; 0, of a piece of stock with a cupcountersunk therein, which cup is to form the main setting. Fig. 2 showsa plan, and also a vertical section on line to w, of the main settingafter being cut from such piece of stock. Fig. 3 represents a plan, andalso a side View of the main setting with the prongs thereof turnedupward. Fig. 4 shows a plan, and also a perspective view of the centralsetting. Fig. 5 represents a plan, and also a central section on line a:00, of the plate employed for definitely locating the central settingrelatively to the main setting. Fig. 6 shows in plan the central settingplaced in the openingin said plate. Fig. 7 represents said plate andsetting located in the main setting. Fig. 8 shows in plan the outerstones set in the main Fig. 9 represents two transverse sections on liney y, the lower view showing a modification hereinafter described. Fig.10 shows a plan of the settings fully furnished with stones. Fig.11represents a face View and a transverse section on line 22, of the toolemployed for closing down the outer row of prongs upon the stones, inthe operation of securing them in place in the main setting.

The material of the setting may be gold, silver, rolled plate, or othermetal, and the form or design thereof may be any that is preferred.

The first step in the production of the main or. principal setting A, isto countersink, by

means of proper and well known tools, a cup in a plate or strip A ofsheet metal, as shown in Fig. 1.- The next step is to cut or punch suchcup from the piece of stock in such a manner as to afford integralprongs or points a, projecting from the periphery of the cup, as shownin Fig. 2, which prongs are afterward to be bent or turned upward asshown in Fig.3.

The inner or central setting B is produced by cutting it from a plate ofmetal and turning up the prongs 17 around its periphery as shown in Fig.4. The means employed for centering the setting B in the setting A, ordefining the positions of the two settings relatively to each other,consists of a plate 0, Fig. 5, having an opening 0 therein. This openingin the plate 0 receives the setting B, and the plate is preferablyfinished with points a which enter and fill between the prongs of thesetting B, as shown in Fig. 6. The plate 0, as shown in the drawings, isintended to fit the interior of the cup or main setting A, as indicatedin Fig. 7, so as to locate and hold the setting B in a central ordefinite relation to the setting A after the two are combined, although,as will be readily understood, such a relation will be secured andmaintained if only two opposite portions, as p, p, of themelted tosecure the setting B to the setting A, as shown in the lower sectionalview at Fig.9. The setting B having been placed in the plate 0, as shownin Fig.6, said plate and setting are then placed in the setting A, asshown in Fig. 7, and the setting points of the central setting, arethereby definitely located with reference to the setting points on thebase section, so that the several central setting points co-operate withappropriate setting points on the base section, for confining the outerstones in position. Paper, or other suitable packing D, Fig. 9, is thenplaced on the plate to raisethe stones E to the proper height, and saidstones are placed in the setting A, between the prongs a and b. Thefirst step in securing the stones E in position is the bending inwardand downward of the points a. This is accomplished quickly andeconomically by the employment of a tool T, shown in Fig. 11, the faceof which is indented or cupped in a shape corresponding with the shapeof the setting A, such cupped portion being beveled or curved upward, as

shown at If, so as to bend the points a down upon the, stones E. Thecentral portion of the tool T has a cavity T for receiving the prongs band preventing them from interfering. with the descent of the tool. Thepoints a having been bent down, the points I) are now bent outward overthestones E and also extend upward, as shown in Fig. 9. The centralstoneF is now placed within these points and they are then bent down upon thestone F, completing the setting, as shown in Fig. 10.' It will beobserved that the points I) are first bent outward against the stones Eand the upper extremities afterward brought back inward upon the centralstone, the lower pora central or interior setting, provided with settingpoints which not only serve to confine a central stone, but alsoco-operate with the outer integral setting points for securing theseveralout'er stones,

3. The method or process herein described for making a cluster setting,namely, first cupping a metal plate, second cutting the pointsout of theflat metal surrounding the top of the cup, third turning up the points,fourth, locating the interior parts in the base member, fifth, puttingthe stones in position, and sixth, closing the exterior pointsof thebase member uponthe stones by means of the tools described.

JOHN L. REMLINGER;

Witnesses:

JOHN W. HO AN, OSCAR LAPHAM.

